To further this thread - The UK Government yesterday (24th January) announced an additional, non-mandatory 'Fast Track UKCA Process' for products placed on the GB market. See the 'banner' grey box area added to the top of this gov.uk URL link below. At a later date the page will get further updated, so I suggest to keep monitoring this webpage periodically.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-ukca-marking Hence this is an additional route to conformity available to all us manufacturers. Does not look to replace either of the current CE or UK marking paths. Also, the UK Government has also extended the Derogation to allow ongoing use of the CE mark in Great Britain to these three further Regulations: RoHS 2012, Ecodesign for Energy Related Products 2010, and Explosives 2014 all of which is revealed in the 'banner'. "the Government also intends to bring forward an additional statutory instrument to legislate for further measures in Spring 2024" There will be a general election in the UK this year (or possibly early 2025) and a new government may interfere with what is currently planned. Nothing like certainty! Good luck all. Matthew Wilson, GB Electronics (UK) Ltd. 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From: Lauren Crane <00001afd08519f18-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ieee.org> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2024 6:02 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [PSES] UKCA Extension .... again Hello Experts, In Nov 22 we (this listserve) were discussing the UKCA extension aiming to allow CE marking to stand in for UKCA for a longer period. We were tracking a related statutory instrument, which I believe has been released as SI 2022 No. 1393 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1393/contents/made). This SI 1393, however, does not appear to extend the deadline indefinitely. According to a accompanying explanatory memorandum (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1393/memorandum/contents) ... "the instrument makes only the necessary changes to extend the time period for recognition of products meeting EU requirements and markings until 31 December 2024, to extend existing labelling easements until 31 December 2027, and extending the time period to allow any steps taken under EU conformity procedures before 31 December 2024 to be considered valid to demonstrate compliance with UKCA, for the duration of the certificates issued or until 31 December 2027, whichever is the sooner." Nonetheless, a couple official uk.gov webpages (e.g., https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-ukca-marking) say "The government intends to introduce legislation to extend recognition of goods that meet EU requirements, including the CE marking, indefinitely, beyond 31 December 2024 for many products." I cannot identify any SI in the works that will provide the alleged indefinite extension. Does anyone on the list have more certain information about the indefinite extension they could share? 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